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    "id": 429053,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "spirit of the Constitution, where the Constitution has taken devolution as one of the important steps in developing our country. If you look at the current Bill, it has split the revenue and has given the county governments a whopping 43 per cent, which is complying with the constitutional requirement of 15 per cent. This is very important and I want to urge county governments to ensure that this revenue is distributed fairly. If you look at the CRA formula, it is very clear. It has given money to county governments on the basis of population, land, poverty, equal share and responsibility. The county governments must also devolve all the revenue allocated to them equitably, the same way the national Government has allocated to them. They must ensure that every part of the county receives a fair share of the revenue given to them. If you look at what is happening, in some of the counties, you cannot tell on what basis they allocate resources on the grassroots. Therefore, I want to recommend that the counties should also be fair. However, some of the bodies which we created to take care of the distribution of this revenue have failed this country. For example, the CRA and the Transition Authority (TA). We are in the second year and we are still sharing revenue in the counties on imputed cost. They have been in office for close to two years and they are not doing anything in coming up with actual costs for each transferred function. Therefore, in the second year, we are still allocating money on the basis of imputed cost. We want to ask them to do their job because they are receiving quite a lot of money to perform their functions, yet they are not doing their job. Right now, there are counties which are really suffering. If you look at a county like Kericho County, where I come from, the actual cost of running the devolved function in health is very high. We are only receiving the revenue on the basis of the formula set, which is distributing revenue equitably throughout the country regardless of the transferred functions. Therefore, a county which has more than five big hospitals at the level of district hospitals will be disadvantaged compared to a county which has one district hospital."
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